Waggoner Library: Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery: Media Resources

News services and newspapers provide current news and trends on this issue.

Keep in mind newspaper sources aren't considered scholarly sources but they are informative and can link you to more academic resources.

Gale OneFile: News This link opens in a new window
With InfoTrac Newsstand, you can search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers, then select your own screen appearance, search options and results format.
Tennessean (2010-recent) This link opens in a new window
The Tennessean (known until 1972 as The Nashville Tennessean) is the principal daily newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Its circulation area covers 39 counties in Middle Tennessee and eight counties in southern Kentucky. Coverage from 1999 to present.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
Incorporates daily coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Human trafficking is covered from a different perspective.

Streaming videos are accessible through Films on Demand, a library database. Below is a link to a list of films relating to human trafficking.

National Slavery & Human Trafficking Awareness Month
Over 200 films in this database about modern slavery and human trafficking.

These videos are documentaries, TED talks, interviews or news reports from the Films for the Humanities, BBC,PBS, TED Talks, and other scholarly sources. Below is the introductory segment of a PBS report entitled Sex Trafficking in the USA that is 1hr 28 min 42 sec in length.

Blogs provide current news and trends on this issue.

Keep in mind blog posts aren't considered scholarly sources but they are informative and can link you to more academic resources.

FreedomUnited.org News
Freedom United is the world's largest anti-slavery community engaging millions of people to take over 18 million actions against modern slavery. Frequency about 14 posts per week.
Human Trafficking: Google News
Up-to-date news coverage about human trafficking, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News. Frequency about 56 posts per week.
Stop the Traffik.org
Human trafficking and modern slavery are truly global issues. Therefore, our work reaches all corners of the globe. Our goal is to build resilient communities, by turning them into places where it is harder for traffickers to hide their activities and their victims. Given the organized nature of these crimes, we believe that the only way to combat them is through intelligence-led prevention. As such, we are collecting data and stories from around the world and building intelligence. With this, we can target human trafficking and modern slavery at their source and defeat them for good.
Trafficking Monitor
Highlights the multifaceted nature of human trafficking. Articles and studies from a diversity of sources, including the academic, advocacy, faith-based, media, and non-profit communities. Frequency about 5 posts per week.
Truckers Against Trafficking
Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT) is raising up a mobile army of transportation professionals to assist law enforcement in the recognition and reporting of human trafficking in order to aid in the recovery of victims and the arrest of their perpetrators. Frequency about 15 posts per week.